"Forming a party? What is your political platform? Chai Dongliang looked directly into Kuang Haishan's eyes and said.

Kuang Haishan looked at him without showing weakness and said: "Compete for the reading power of the nation externally, and strive for the happiness of the people's livelihood internally? ”

Chai Dongliang said coldly: "That's it? What about the means to achieve this? ”

Kuang Haishan said eloquently: "China is weak, and it must be used by thunder to cleanse the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and to enrich the population with China's resources. ”

Chai Dongliang pressed down with his hands, motioned for him to sit down, and then asked calmly: "There are 45,000,000 people in China, how can they be united?" ”

Kuang Haishan seemed to have been prepared, and blurted out: "With a strong leader to promote the idea of unification, 400 trillion people are led by this thought, and all of them will be united!" ”

After a long time, Chai Dongliang said: "The army is the iron fist of the Republic of China, the umbrella of the people, not a place for party activities??? If I need funds, I will provide some, which can be regarded as a meeting between everyone. ”

As soon as he said it, everyone was shocked.

Kuang Haishan was even more dumbfounded: "Governor, I have no heart to go out of the Anhui Revolutionary Army, let alone the heart to seize military power with a political party, no matter when the Governor is our leader." ”

Chai Dong nodded and said, "I believe everything you say, and I understand your thoughts." It has been more than half a year since the founding of the Republic of China, and today it is in turmoil, and everyone hopes that a strong figure will appear to clean up the mess??? Speaking behind closed doors, all of our southern provinces can't believe in President Yuan, and Mr. Sun said that he will no longer run for the official president, and the provisional Senate has been attacked by the people of the world, so you want me to come forward to clean up people's hearts, am I right? ”

Kuang Haishan nodded and said: "This is the common wish of our Anhui Revolutionary Army!" Since the governor of Anhui, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the rapid development of industry, Anqing, Wuhu and other places have built roads through running water, Anhui Province has been changing with each passing day in the past six months, we are happy in the eyes of the heart, on the other hand, other provinces are in turmoil, annihilating people and remnants of the people to poison the lives of soldiers and bandits, and then look at the central political axe, the presidential palace and the Senate are fighting endlessly, the Republic of China has just been established for less than half a year, the Nanjing temporary political axe has been replaced by the Yanjing temporary political axe, Tang Shaoyi's cabinet has changed the Lu Zhengxiang cabinet, and the second cabinet is also going to collapse. Since the founding of the Republic of China, it is still a temporary political axe, and no country in the world has recognized the Republic of China as a legitimate political axe??? The Republic of China has not even had a formal political axe, and it is already planning to betray the country, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty is shameless, it is also a traitor after defeating the war, which is so cheap as the Republic of China taking the initiative to send the interests of the whole country to the door? The whole country is so erosive, how can the good situation in Anhui Province last long, we are really afraid that the governor's hard work will be ruined! ”

Chai Dongliang was speechless when he heard this. Since the founding of the Republic of China, there has hardly been a day of peace, whether it is Sun Wen or Yuan Shikai, or Tang Shaoyi and Lu Zhengxiang, the biggest problem everyone faces is that the finances have collapsed. When the Manchu Qing Dynasty fell to the country, the provincial treasury had a surplus, ranging from two or three million to more than ten million taels. However, no amount of money can withstand the war, and the economy will regress for at least ten years in half a year.

If we want to end the chaotic situation, we must have the power of the political axe, and the "Provisional Covenant" has turned the president and the cabinet into rubber stamps, and Yuan Shikai, Tang Shaoyi, and Lu Zhengxiang cannot do whatever they want. In particular, the borrowing that is urgently needed to stabilize the situation has become the target of attack by all parties. The banking syndicate demanded the right to supervise, audit, and use human rights, and the foreigners also demanded that China use salt tax, customs duty, and the central government axe tax designated by the four provinces of Zhili, Shandong, Henan, and Jiangsu as guarantees.

Is it tolerable or unbearable!

The loan treaty has not yet been signed, and Xiong Xiling and others, who are in charge of the negotiations, have been scolded as Han annihilation and national thieves, and no one in the whole country knows that these conditions are just foreigners acting according to the rules and regulations in accordance with the principles of international accounting law in accordance with the usual practice. No one pays attention to the interest that is harsher than the Gengzi indemnity, and there is no need to take a copper plate from the pockets of these senators anyway.

This is just like after the Opium War, the government and the opposition were indignant at the foreigners' request to set up a legation in Yanjing, but the scholars and doctors did not have any opinion on the foreigners' demand for the legalization of the opium trade. A war started because of opium finally turned into a royal battle for face, and no one even mentioned the matter of opium, which is really ridiculous.

The actions of the Senate have already aroused dissatisfaction in various places, and the telegrams of the provincial governors, the council bureaus, and various parties impeaching the Senate have flown like snowflakes, and the whole country has reached a consensus that China must now have a strong figure to control the overall situation.

This figure was originally Yuan Shikai, but because of dissatisfaction with the loan conditions, the elites of the southern provinces classified Yuan Shikai as a traitor, and even Sun Wen, who had already left the wilderness, was greatly damaged because he tried to use the Hanyeping Iron Works as collateral to borrow money from him when he was the provisional president.

Chai Dongliang also had some sympathy for Yuan Shikai in his heart, Sun Wen had unlimited power when he was the president, and when he became the president, he became a rubber stamp, and if things couldn't be done, the board had to hit him??? If it had changed, he would have turned his face a long time ago, and Lao Yuan's kung fu was not bad, but he hadn't gone crazy so far.

Today's Chinese politics is already a dead end, and everyone pins their only hope on the official election in half a year, so the wind of forming a party is vigorous, and even the military who should not interfere in politics have formed various parties to try to influence the situation in China.

Under such circumstances, it would be unwise to form a party to compete with the League and other parties in the Parliament!

The cigarette butt in Chai Dongliang's hand was about to burn to his fingers, and then he said slowly: "Your program is not mature enough and does not have the conditions to form a party. ”

Lu Kai and others stood up one after another and said: "It is precisely because of this that we need the governor to be our party leader and lead the progress of the country." ”

Chai Dongliang slapped the table and said: "Soldiers can't interfere in politics, this is iron discipline!" ”

Seeing that Chai Dongliang was angry, everyone was silent.

After a long time, Chai Dongliang took a few sips of tea before he said slowly: "I don't know that the country can't go on in chaos?" However, any republic is a civilian political axe, and military interference in politics will inevitably lead to warlord scuffle, which is a big taboo in the republic! Since you don't have a mature program, then I have some immature ideas, would you like to hear them? ”

Everyone suddenly perked up, it turned out that the governor didn't have no ideas, but he didn't want to say it, but now he was provoked by Kuang Haishan, Lu Kai and others, and he planned to be open and honest.

Chai Dongliang took out three pencils and put them on the table: "What is a republic?" The ancient Chinese said that the republic refers to the two people who ruled the world together, while the modern political axe refers to the citizens who jointly have the power to govern the country. The foundation of a monarchy is honor, and the foundation of a republic is justice. The emperor loses his power and humiliates the country, loses his honor, loses his legal surname, and if the republic loses its fairness, it also loses its legal surname??? How to ensure that the fairness of the republic is not broken? Only by relying on the balance of power is the theoretical basis for the separation of powers among the judiciary, the executive, and the legislature. The requirements of the three powers are roughly equal and mutually supervised, so as to ensure the stability of the political power and the basic social order from being infringed upon.

However, the system of separation of powers is not necessarily an immutable form, for example, there is a big difference between France and the United States, and the president of the United States has great power, because the local power of each state in the United States is very large, which can check and balance the federal political axe. But in a republic with both parliamentary and presidential systems, the first condition is that power comes from a civilian mandate. ”

Chai Dongliang looked at Kuang Haishan and asked, "Tell me, what do the officials of the Republic do?" ”

Kuang Haishan said without thinking: "The public servant of the whole people." ”

Chai Dongliang pouted and smiled: "Do you believe this kind of that fools the people?" I can tell you that there is not a single country in the whole world that can do this! My servants can wash my feet and pour the toilet for me, which public servant do you think is willing to pour a night pot for the common people? An official is an official, and an official is to ride a horse and sit in a sedan chair, and to enjoy some privileges, which is understandable! ”

Kuang Haishan was puzzled: "Then isn't this the official master of the former Qing Dynasty?" ”

Chai Dongliang waved his hand to silence him: "Listen to me finish speaking, have you thought about a question, why Qin II is the emperor, but Zhao Gao can refer to the deer as a horse?" Why could the eunuchs of the Han Dynasty depose the emperor? ”

He Tianshou immediately replied: "The emperor is in charge, and the emperor is deceived!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled indifferently: "Can a minister control the government?" What can he do without a group of annihilators cooperating with him? ”

Kuang Haishan seemed to understand a little, and asked solemnly: "What did the governor say because of that?" ”

Chai Dongliang said word by word: "Where the power comes from, be loyal!" ”

Everyone suddenly fell into thought, feeling a little clue and a little vague.

Chai Dongliang continued: "In Chinese history, the so-called annihilation of ministers controls the government, that is because the emperor ignores the government, and these ministers have the opportunity to grant power to others. The power of these people does not come from the emperor, and naturally they will not be loyal to the emperor, but only to those who have given them power??? In the same way, the most important thing about a republic is that the people must have the ability to delegate power to parliament and political officials, and only when they control this power can it really be a republic! The common people can let you be an official, let you ride a horse and sit in a sedan chair, or they can throw you down and make you ruined. ”

Kuang Haishan frowned and said, "Isn't this going to fall under the rule of the French Jacobin mob?" Can the majority kill the minority at any time? ”

Chai Dongliang slapped his hands and said, "Good question!" This is the crux of the problem, so under the separation of powers, the judiciary, the legislative, and the executive, there must also be a small separation of powers as the foundation of society! That is the separation of powers between trade unions, chambers of commerce, and political axes, without which social unrest is inevitable??? Chinese people have only three or five acres of land for a family, and it is difficult to maintain the life of the whole family even if they are intensively cultivated, so they must take the road of cooperatives, concentrate the land for large-scale planting, and share advantages. Of course, this must be based on the willingness of the people, and the political axe can only be guided but not forced. With the cooperatives, peasant associations can be established, and peasants can fight against landlords and farmers when they have organizations, and the same is true in the cities, where workers can have trade unions and dialogue with capitalists??? But in order to do this, the most important thing is that the people have votes in their hands and can decide the fate of officials, otherwise the officials and businessmen will collude, and the people's words will be even worse than under the imperial power! ”

The separation of powers, these people have all heard of it, but it is unheard of that there are three small powers under the big three powers.

Kuang Haishan said excitedly: "Since the governor has this good policy of governing the country, why doesn't he form a party to participate in the election and benefit the people?" ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "These words are not supposed to be the time to say to you, but it is not okay not to say them??? The Chinese people still do not understand the meaning of that ballot, if the popular suffrage is rash at this time, it will inevitably be a great chaos in the world, and I dare to conclude that the governors of the provinces will inevitably use guns to force the people to elect themselves, and when the world is really in chaos, these people should say that China is not suitable for a republican system, and pour dirty water on the Ming boiling constitutionalism, will not the achievements of the revolution be ruined in one fell swoop? ”

Everyone was moved by Chai Dongliang, they originally only vaguely felt that the Senate was so nonsense, but it was not possible to let Yuan Shikai sign a loan treaty that humiliated the country, so the idea of letting Chai Dongliang form a party came to pass, but what he didn't expect was that Chai Dongliang already had a mature idea.

Gu Weijun, a doctor who studied abroad, has always regarded himself very highly, and belongs to the figure who must be called British and American, and originally thought that China could become a great power by copying the British and American political system, but he did not expect that China's situation would be so complicated. He knew much more about the European and American systems than others in the West for many years, and asked respectfully: "Since universal suffrage cannot be achieved, how can we ensure that power is in the hands of the people?" ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "It's not that there will be no universal suffrage, but that we should take our time and come steadily step by step??? I intend to change the administrative divisions of Anqing and Wuhu, the most civilized cities in the province, and to change the divisions of Anqing and Wuhu into cities, and each city will be divided into a number of districts according to the actual situation, and the administrative level of each district will be the same as that of the county. As long as the district-level elections are completed, the surrounding counties will be self-defeating, and since ancient times, the atmosphere of the rural people has followed the city, and the provincial capital has been completed, and the county seat will naturally not be a problem??? In three years, Anhui will achieve universal suffrage at the county level, and in another two years, the provincial political axe and the provincial assembly will be elected by the members elected at the county level in accordance with the principle of representative system! ”

Kuang Haishan and others were a little disappointed: "Five years? How long does it take? ”

Chai Dongliang smiled slightly: "It's fast enough, the past five years are the process of educating the people, and at the same time working hard to improve people's livelihood and develop industry. It is very likely that you will take up a knife and gun to rebel??? Achieving it overnight seems to be a shortcut, but it is often not achieved quickly. Be patient, build Anhui well, take out a model for the people of the whole country to see, let them feel tangible benefits, so that the results will be stable! ”

Gu Weijun patted his thigh and said, "Governor, you can list your plan in detail and tell the people of the province." ”

Chai Dong nodded and said, "That's a good idea??? I think it's called the first five-year plan of Anhui Province! ”

(To be continued)